Papua New Guinea Coffee Flavor Profile: Types and Prices of Papua New Guinea Coffee

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Pour-over Papua New Guinea

15g coffee grounds, medium grind (Fuji ghost tooth blade grinder #4), V60 dripper, water temperature 88-89°C. First pour 30g water for 27 seconds bloom, then pour to 105g and stop. Wait until the water level drops halfway, then continue slow pouring until reaching 225g total. Avoid the tail section. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

Kimel Estate's Unique Characteristics

Another special feature of Kimel is the diversity of coffee varieties they cultivate—so many that you can't count them on one hand: Typica, Arusha, Blue Mountain, Mundo Novo, Catimor, Caturra, and even more. In fact, just as one wouldn't put all eggs in one basket, most farmers plant different varieties to avoid the risk of poor growth or production below expectations for any particular variety. This also creates interesting expressions of coffee flavor characteristics.

Tasting Profile

This Peaberry from Kimel Estate offers subtle spiced notes on the palate, with sweet and refreshing nutty and sugarcane flavors upon entry. It possesses a creamy, smooth mouthfeel with buttery lactones. The peaberry's texture is more substantial, with overall balanced and smooth performance. The flavor is rich and the aroma pleasant, without herbal or earthy notes. Its texture is as intense and mellow as Van Gogh's paintings.

Product Information

Manufacturer: Coffee Workshop
Address: No. 10 Bao'an Front Street, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, FrontStreet Coffee
Contact: 020-38364473
Shelf Life: 90 days
Net Weight: 227g
Packaging: Bulk
Origin: Papua New Guinea

Coffee Details

Country: Papua New Guinea
Grade: PB (Peaberry)
Region: Waghi Valley
Roast Level: Medium roast
Processing Method: Washed
Varieties: Arusha, Catimor, Caturra
Estate: Kimel Estate

Understanding Peaberry

Let me introduce PB, the full name Peaberry, which we commonly call round bean. Typically, a coffee cherry contains two seeds—what we commonly see as coffee beans, with one curved side and one flat side, similar to peanut shape. We call these flat beans. Peaberry, however, occurs when a coffee cherry contains only one coffee bean. The bean shape is oval, accounting for a very small proportion of the entire coffee tree's fruit. Peaberries are all selected by hand, one by one, ensuring overall quality, so it's no surprise they taste good.

Papua New Guinea Coffee Characteristics

Papua New Guinea's coffee production isn't very high, but all its coffee beans are carefully processed washed Arabica beans. Generally, washed coffee beans are full of bright fruit flavors but without strong acidity. Their characteristics include a silky smooth mouthfeel and wonderful aroma, with moderate acidity, making them a rare coffee variety with both high body and medium acidity.

Flavor Notes: Nuts, sugarcane, spices

Global Recognition

In recent years, Papua New Guinea coffee has begun representing Oceania in the world specialty coffee scene with its unique, high-quality washed Arabica beans. Papua New Guinea coffee features full-bodied beans, moderate acidity, and fragrant, mellow taste characteristics.

Geographic Origins

Papua New Guinea is an island nation in Oceania. In Malay, "Papua" means "curly hair." It's said that in 1545, explorer Ruy López de Villalobos reached the island and found that most islanders had curly hair, calling it "the island of curly-haired people," hence the name that has been passed down. Papua New Guinea is east of Indonesia, with a standard island climate located between the equator and 10° south latitude. It has tropical rainforest, volcanic rock, and plateau terrain, with altitudes ranging from 1,200-2,500 meters, making it paradise for coffee cultivation.

Production and Economy

Local production is not large, with approximately 85% of total coffee production coming from smallholder garden cultivation systems. Small farmers join local cooperatives to share processing equipment. Coffee is Papua New Guinea's second-largest agricultural export by volume, demonstrating the importance of the coffee industry to the country's economy. Due to different coffee varieties from Indonesia, higher altitudes than Sumatra, and washed processing, PNG coffee's regional taste differs greatly from Indonesia's earthy and low-toned flavors, instead offering brightness, sweet and sour notes, and floral and fruit aromas, similar to South American flavors.

Natural Environment

Papua New Guinea boasts a pristine, natural environment with vast, fertile land. Its unique volcanic soil and abundant rainfall create excellent natural conditions for coffee growth. Papua New Guinea's premium coffee beans are as beautiful and precious as the country's national bird, the bird of paradise.

Kimel Estate

Large plantations typically have their own washing stations, while smaller individual coffee farmers can better control output quality and flavor expression. Located in Papua New Guinea's western highlands near the Waghi Valley, adjacent to the Kimel River Valley, Kimel Estate, like many large farms/plantations, has its dedicated washing station. In fact, this is an estate jointly owned by many independent small coffee farmers from the surrounding Opais people group, making it a private cooperative in a sense. Due to excellent growing conditions and the washing station's stable quality control processes, the produced coffee has vibrant brightness while retaining a considerable degree of Papua New Guinea coffee's unique flavor characteristics.

Important Notice :

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